VERBAL ABILITY

VA -3 Error Identification

 Grammar based error identification

 Application/ Usage of grammar concepts

1. (i) India needs a value education system who will inculcate values among the students and enrich
their personalities.
(ii) Some genuine issues exist with the newly adopted system and needs to be examined
seriously.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

2. (i) I have done my best; the whole thing is now in the laps of the Gods.
(ii) There is no question of my failing in the examination.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

3. (i) The most effective way to deal with unpleasing facts is to render them as exaggerations.
(ii) Many problems are easy to spot and fix but a few are tough to locate, harder to repair.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

4. (i) when you have gone through my book, give the same to me.
(ii) i ought to met my consultant when i am in Kolkata next week.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

5. (i) The driver sounded the horn thrice before she came.
(ii) Of the two books he chose the one which he considered more suitable.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

6. (i) No other student of his class is so intelligent as my brother.

(ii) The interim report does not analyze thoroughly the principal causes of the disaster.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
 C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

7. (i) Love for children is yet another positive aspect of his personality.
(ii)A five star hotel is to be built in the middle of the city.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

8. (i) There is little doubt that this is the correct attitude.

(ii) When she was grown up, Trisha was not exposed to Tamil film world as she is now.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

9. (i) It being a rainy day Suresh decides to stay and work further on the problem .
(ii) If he had been serious about peace, he would endorse the peace efforts being made.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

10. (i) The country has secularism at its core and anything that violates it should not be permitted.
(ii) Please scour the grease off the floor.
A) Only statement (i) contains error
B) Only statement (ii) contains error
C) Both (i) and (ii) contains error
D) Both (i) and (ii) are error free

Directions(1-10): Read the sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any,
will be in one part of the sentence. The number corresponding to that part will be your answer.
If the given sentence is correct as given, mark option E, i.e. “No error” as the answer. Ignore the
errors of punctuation.

1. There were far more (1)/ profitable houses to burgle (2)/ within a stone’s throw of her (3)/
own modestest establishment (4).

2. The smell of char flesh (1)/ and metal still lingered, and Lana covered her (2)/ mouth and
nose with her hand (3)/ as she started forward again. (4)

3. Scarcely had he returned to Germany (1)/ and the Lateran disavowed all (2)/ that the pope had
done, (3)/ on the score that it had been extorted by force. (4)

4. Reshma called it the (1)/ science of shopping, the ability (2)/ to resist the temptations (3)/ of
attractively packaging (4).
 5. In the warm and beautiful summer, Margot (1)/ finds herself being drawn to her neighbour
(2)/ and ruminate over the empty spaces in her marriage, (3)/ which she seeks to fill through
infidelity. (4)

6. Some doctors give out false along with wrong (1)/ information and since pets are extremely
sensitive (2)/ to any incorrect treatment, you should always (3)/ take references from people
who already have pets. (4)

7. The study found that musicians have the ability (1)/ to remember information pertaining to
auditory (2)/signals better owing to their training which makes (3)/ their working memory
better than that of others. (4)

8. Himachal is known to attract trekkers and (1)/ nature enthusiastic from all over the world, (2)/
but a rise in footfall leaves a huge heap (3)/ of discarded plastic waste in the region. (4)

9. Pierre, accompanied by the soldiers, (1)/ was advancing to the spot where (2)/ the general
stood, but the (3)/ French soldiers stopped him. (4)

10. Government borrowings in (1)/ the first five months (2)/ of this fiscal year have breached (3)/
the limit they had set for the full year. (4)

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